The Human Right to a Healthy Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Human Right to a Healthy Environment write by John H. Knox. This book was released on 2018-06-28. The Human Right to a Healthy Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.
The Environmental Rights Revolution
The Environmental Rights Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Environmental Rights Revolution write by David R. Boyd. This book was released on 2011-11-29. The Environmental Rights Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around the question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law? David Boyd answers this by moving beyond theoretical debates to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right in constitutions. His pioneering analysis of 193 constitutions and the laws and court decisions of more than 100 nations in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa reveals a positive correlation between constitutional protection and stronger environmental laws, smaller ecological footprints, superior environmental performance, and improved quality of life.
The Green Amendment
The Green Amendment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Green Amendment write by Maya K. Van Rossum. This book was released on 2017. The Green Amendment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2017 INDIE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FINALIST "A rallying cry . . . Everyone who is concerned about the welfare of all species, including human beings. Please read this important book." --Richard Louv, chairman emeritus of the Children & Nature Network and author of LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS and THE NATURE PRINCIPLE The Constitutional Change We Need to Protect Our Priceless Natural Resources For decades, activists have relied on federal and state legislation to fight for a cleaner environment. And for decades, they've been fighting a losing battle. The sad truth is, our laws are designed to accommodate pollution rather than prevent it. It's no wonder people feel powerless when it comes to preserving the quality of their water, air, public parks, and special natural spaces. But there is a solution, argues veteran environmentalist Maya K. van Rossum: bypass the laws and turn to the ultimate authority--our state and federal constitutions. In 2013, van Rossum and her team won a watershed legal victory that not only protected Pennsylvania communities from ruthless frackers but affirmed the constitutional right of people in the state to a clean and healthy environment. Following this victory, van Rossum inaugurated the Green Amendment movement, dedicated to empowering every American community to mobilize for constitutional change. Now, with The Green Amendment, van Rossum lays out an inspiring new agenda for environmental advocacy, one that will finally empower people, level the playing field, and provide real hope for communities everywhere. Readers will discover how legislative environmentalism has failed communities across America, the transformational difference environmental constitutionalism can make, the economic imperative of environmental constitutionalism, and how to take action in their communities. We all have the right to pure water, clean air, and a healthy environment. It's time to claim that right--for our own sake and that of future generations.
The Right to a Healthy Environment
The Right to a Healthy Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Right to a Healthy Environment write by David R. Boyd. This book was released on 2012-10-03. The Right to a Healthy Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada's green record. This important and provocative book provides a road map to protect human health, the well-being of the planet, and the interests of future generations.
The Constitutional Question to Save the Planet
The Constitutional Question to Save the Planet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Constitutional Question to Save the Planet write by Franklin L. Kury. This book was released on 2021. The Constitutional Question to Save the Planet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than 50 years ago, Franklin Kury drafted and championed an Environmental Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution, which was enacted on Earth Day 1970 and ratified by Pennsylvania's voters a year later. In the half century since then, climate change has become the overriding threat to the environment of the planet. In this book, Franklin Kury expands upon the story of Article I, Section 27, to demonstrate how its principles can be the basis for addressing climate change in the rest of the world. The story concludes with a call for the federal government's leadership to seek a national environmental rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution and a treaty to expand its reach to the international community.
